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Thoughts on Productivity, Habits and the Price is Right

Habits are hard to break. Habits are hard to create. Any productivity book I have read that doesn’t state those two points clearly goes in one ear and out the other. I liked Zen to Done because it’s simplicity states that. Go ahead, give 450 rules and I might as well not start.

But even in simplicity, the complexity can be deceiving. Sometimes it takes rereading just to revisit the initial spark that set you off on the course.

Panic As Fuel

I am a relatively organized and driven person, but I do get comfortable. Comfortable is spending way to much time exploring and not enough time marketing and getting links. Comfortable is putting off my 4 hour sessions of work that I do on the weekends and settling for the couple hours a day spent on my daily to do’s.

Then something happens. What is something?

  • The basket all my eggs were in gets banned by Google.
  • Other Adwords advertisers advance heavily on my campaigns for days before I notice it.